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NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS DEC 3 2025

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

CHRISTIAN EMMANUEL DUENAS BARRAZA, No. 23-1874

Petitioner, Agency No.

A037-566-561

v.

PAMELA BONDI, Attorney General, MEMORANDUM*

Respondent.

*

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted October 22, 2025 Portland, Oregon

Before: W. FLETCHER, CHRISTEN, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.

Christian Emmanuel Duenas Barraza, a native and citizen of El Salvador,

petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)

dismissing his appeal from an order of removal issued by an Immigration Judge

(IJ). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. “Where, as here, the BIA adopts

the decision of the IJ, we review the IJ’s decision as if it were that of the BIA.”

Hoque v. Ashcroft, 367 F.3d 1190, 1194 (9th Cir. 2004). We review purely legal

questions de novo, Lopez v. Garland, 116 F.4th 1032, 1036 (9th Cir. 2019),…